Fine Books & Manuscripts

BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice (1875–1950). The Girl from Hollywood. New York: The Macaulay Company, [1923]; but probably 1925 (see issue points). 8vo. Frontispiece (Zeuschner’s second priority without “he said” in the caption; Currey’s B printing with first line of type measuring 9.3 cm) by P.J. Monahan. Publisher’s pebbled red cloth stamped and lettered in green (Currey’s “B” binding); original second state dust jacket with the publisher’s shield at foot of spine panel and an ad for “The Crystal Claw” (1924) on the rear panel (light chipping to head of spine panel with marring to verso, faint rubbing to rear); custom cloth clamshell box with morocco spine label. FIRST EDITION, Zeuschner’s fourth printing, second variant in an early dust jacket. AN ATTRACTIVE COPY. Currey p. 88; Heins GH–1 (X4); Zeuschner 167. Heins in “A Golden Anniversary Bibliography of Edgar Rice Burroughs” (1964) designates this copy with the frontispiece caption lacking “he said” and bound in red pebbled cloth lettered in yellow–green as the first printing but was later retracted after research by Lukes and Ross who noted interior printing plate deterioration in this issue therefore concluding that it was a later printing.